| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, annual reports, accounts, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Ballybeen Women's Centre (BWC), Dundonald. Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Paul S. Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: BWC is an integrated service provider committed to enabling women, young people and children to realise their potential and fulfil their aspirations through the promotion of health, personal and socio-economic development. BWC, 1) promotes health and well being within the community, 2) is committed to early child development through the provision of its pre-school and childcare programmes, 3) is committed to lifelong learning and strives to elevate the aspirations and ambition of women and young people through the provision of education and training programmes ranging from life skills to employment training, 4) is committed to working with government departments and their agencies in the formulation policy and implementation of services to address multiple disadvantage, 5) adopts a holistic approach to realising its objectives within a disadvantaged community, putting people first in a person-centred approach, 6) is a vehicle for cross-sectoral/inter-agency collaboration and innovation in response to real needs - enabling government to pursue its policy of social inclusion and for local communities to be active in redressing social imbalance and marginalisation, and 7) is a learning organisation committed to sharing its experience and insights. Its methods and framework for addressing the social problem of social inclusion and life-long learning continually evolves through the processes of its experiences in dealing with the multiplicity of needs experienced by women and young people in marginalized communities and its engagement with government and employers – sharing this knowledge with concerned institutions in other regions and nations. BWC operates a drop-in facility for women on the Ballybeen Estate, a crèche, an information service, education and training opportunities, a pre-school group, baby clinic and a peer education programme. Nature of support: In 1990 the Paul S. Cadbury Trust approved a grant of £5,000 per annum for three years towards the costs of a BWC Development Officer. That same year payments for Northern Ireland grants (with the exception of County Fermanagh) were transferred to the Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust. In 1993 the Trust approved a further single grant of £5,750 to the BWC for the same purpose. Minutes: B&GSCT 7305, B&GSCT 7601, PSCT 855, PSCT 866. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '21/5'. |